1. Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiData and WikiSpecies (Andrew Leung)

I agree with Nemo. Please see my message written in January 2013 that demonstrates the problem (except it's worse because Wikidata is populated with more contents now than in January) http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikispecies-l/2013-January/000076.html

Hello Andrew,

I believe Nemo's point is that Wikidata will become a useful tool for Wikispecies, and can hold all of the structured data Wikispecies needs; so that WS can focus on presentation and search and showcasing related information.

You seem to be suggesting that WD is not useful for this and should be avoided. In contrast, I think that WS is a n obvious next client site; and hope that the community will help to make the relevant species data clean and complete within WD.

@Nikola: I believe you are right. Since the core WD team is not likely to have time to work on such interfaces, this needs some interested folks to start developing and testing that interface and identifying any bugs or features needed to make it work well.

Warmly, Sam.

Nemo writes:

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Nikola Smolenski writes:

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What if this interface would exist? I believe it could be made really quickly and easily.

From what I understand, the interface for Wikidata data is provided by client sites such as Wikipedia. There are no plans for inclusion of Wikispecies as client site, but if/when Wikispecies' needs are implemented this doesn't imply Wikispecies would be useless, rather that it would have easier access to data and could focus on its scope i.e. presenting such data. Currently it tries to do both and IMHO fails at both.